East Midlands Trains have provided some advice for customers affected by the delays - with a replacement bus service now in place between Leicester and Kettering.

Your Advance purchase ticket may be used on other trains, than booked on the affected route.

Off peak tickets may be used on other trains, than booked on the affected route.

Our trains are likely to experience extended delays or alterations. Trains are also extremely busy. You should use alternative routes which remain the most comfortable and quickest journey options.

Other train operators will accept East Midlands Trains tickets.

Sheffield to London Kings Cross via Doncaster.

Derby to London Euston via Birmingham.

Nottingham to London Kings Cross via Grantham.

Leicester to London Euston via Birmingham.

A replacement bus service is running in both directions between Leicester and Kettering only every 60 minutes, departing on the hour from Leicester and returning on the hour from Kettering.

A replacement bus service is running in both directions between Leicester and Kettering, stopping at Market Harborough every 60 minutes, departing at half past the hour from Leicester and returning at half past the hour from Kettering.

An hourly shuttle bus will be operating between Kettering and Corby and will depart Kettering on the hour and Corby at twenty past the hour.

These arrangement will remain in place until the line re-opens and the train service recovers.

09:17

TRAIN delays are expected from Loughborough to London after a person was hit by a train at Kettering North Junction.

The incident happened between Kettering and Leicester and is disrupting East Midlands Trains on the London St Pancras, Nottingham, Sheffield and London St Pancras to Corby routes.

At present Network Rail and British Transport Police are investigating the incident. All of the trains on the route cannot run in either direction between Kettering and Leicester.

A spokesperson said: “At present we are expecting the line to fully reopen in the next two hours. Our normal train service is expected to resume on the affected routes at around 10am.”